Re: my new custom!!

Re: my new custom!!

I like my bars directly vertical to my front axle for trials anyways. Much more control on the nose, in hops, and you can trackstand even on 20" wheels. Just gotta manual a bit more vertical but when you learn how to it can look pretty crazy.

It's a preference thing and depends on your riding, no better or worse rider.

Re: my new custom!!

narwhal wrote:

I like my bars directly vertical to my front axle for trials anyways. Much more control on the nose, in hops, and you can trackstand even on 20" wheels. Just gotta manual a bit more vertical but when you learn how to it can look pretty crazy.

It's a preference thing and depends on your riding, no better or worse rider.

thats waaaaayyy diferent than street bmx but they are really kool looking

Re: my new custom!!

For best overall bike control, line the center of your hand grips up directly over the center of your head tube, which is your steering axis. When you flip your handlebars around backwards, you want the hand grips to line up in exactly the same place as they are forwards.

A fairly easy way to get this aligned close to perfect without trying to follow imaginary lines or pulling out string or a laser is to turn the handlebars 90 degrees and line both grips up directly with the centerline of the seat. If you feel you're riding too close to the handlebars after adjusting that, try to adjust it out by moving the seat back if you can. Get another seat or seatpost if you can't.

If you don't like my shoes, then don't roll in my feet!When you get bored here, check out my tricks on YouTube.

Re: my new custom!!

southernflatland wrote:

For best overall bike control, line the center of your hand grips up directly over the center of your head tube, which is your steering axis. When you flip your handlebars around backwards, you want the hand grips to line up in exactly the same place as they are forwards.

A fairly easy way to get this aligned close to perfect without trying to follow imaginary lines or pulling out string or a laser is to turn the handlebars 90 degrees and line both grips up directly with the centerline of the seat. If you feel you're riding too close to the handlebars after adjusting that, try to adjust it out by moving the seat back if you can. Get another seat or seatpost if you can't.

Re: my new custom!!

Ah, one more thing. I see you have your seat slammed, didn't consider that in my last post. You might wanna raise that up temporarily if you want to align it by the seat, but I'm sure you probably figured that out already. Silly me.

If you don't like my shoes, then don't roll in my feet!When you get bored here, check out my tricks on YouTube.

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Haha, yes that did help! Tomorrow I'm.going to be riding in town with a few friends, and we're trying to make a edit of my friend obie doing some of his best tricks. I think that we're at ice pick to 360 so, about half way through. I'll post a link to the video as soon as we finish it, then we'll make one of everyone doing their best, and we have some longboarders that can film for us. (those things are smooth! The guy we have filming, his board is 4 and a quarter feet long!)

Re: my new custom!!

Re: my new custom!!

Mikel8149 wrote:

Keep the bars the way you want.. Lol it's just personal preference.lol

It's personal preference for simple riding, but it's a science if you do bike tricks. Having the bars any other way besides centered will cause unintentional sideways movement of the frame when the bars are turned, which is generally undesirable since it makes it impossible to completely separate and distinguish the different elements of control.

Sure, some people can and do get used to doing tricks with their handlebars adjusted differently, but it makes things a lot more difficult, whether they know it or not, and more extreme deviations from the center will make some tricks absolutely impossible.

I was 17 when I started making flatland a challenging hobby, and I was in both AP Calculus and Metal Trades in high school at the time. I'll be 30 next month, so I've been riding flatland for quite some time now. I'm speaking both from education and experience, and I love my hobby.

Don't get me wrong, adjust your bike however you want. But if you're into bike tricks like me and the OP, you'll probably want your bars centered. This also happens to be the very first thing I was ever taught about flatland, when I was 12 and learned how to do a simple barspin.

If you do tricks, center your bars, you won't regret it, I promise.

If you don't like my shoes, then don't roll in my feet!When you get bored here, check out my tricks on YouTube.